328 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
the excavating agent of the basins of the Great Lakes. He also 
_—, with a good array of facts, on the reality of the age of ice, 
oe vhs extension - the great northern eg 
er by Professor G. H. Stronz, “On the Kame rivers of 
Maine, » was read by Protussor Upham, in which the origin of 
kame deposits was discussed, whether a or sub-glacial, 
and favoring the former view. He made the important statement 
that in Maine no southward motion in oe: glacier would have 
been possible after the ice had thinned down to 500 feet on 
account of transverse ranges of hills. 
Professor Upham read a paper by Miss F, E. Bassrrt, of Min- 
west of St. Paul, in the village of Little Falls, Morrison County. 
Recently similar discoveries have been made in the same region 
by Miss Babbitt in beds of the terraces below the upper. Many 
hundreds of chips were found in a small area, none Worn, although 
the stony material of the terrace was well rounded; and every 
freshet turned out other specimens, The s oma come from a 
tha Ay layer, a few inches thick, 12 to 15 feet below the top 
the ce. 
In the goes which 1 Gow the reading of the paper, Pro- 
fessor F. W. Putnam stated that some of the specimens exhibited 
in illustration of the paper were unquestionably of human work- 
manship. 
Other papers on related subjects are those of W. J. McGee, 
‘On the formation of Glacial Cafions”; of Jutius PoHLMAN, 
“On the history of the Niagara River”; of W. McApams, “On 
the less and glacial clays of Alton, Hlinois. 
he following is a list of the papers accepted for reading at the 
sessions of the Association : 
List of Papers accepted for Reading. 
Section A, Mathematics and ad 
Epwarp 8. Hotpren: The sores solar eclipse of May 6, 
oGERS: A new method of investigating the re ure corrections 0 
meridian circle ; se to cashier method of producing a dark-field illumination of 
lines ruled — 
E. The « ‘ales of direction and positio 
8. C. Cx Sta : Results of tests with the sinatensar in time and latitude; 
a of ght variations of Sawyer’s variables. 
J. B, Eastman: Internal contacts in transits of inferior planets. 
r G. W. Hovey; Physical phenomena on the planet Jupiter; The rotation of 
omes. 
J. JANSSEN: French observations of the total eclipse of May 6th, 1883. 
0. S. Westcotr: Some hitherto Loop fog + properties of squares. 
E. F. Sawyer: On the © light variatio: Monocerotis, 
